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Permits & Licensing
City ordinance requires any person within the city who owns a dog or cat over six months of age to obtain a license and rabies vaccination for the animal. The court fine for failure to license is $100.00 plus $48.00 court costs per animal. All licenses issued are valid for one year from the date of purchase. Rabies vaccination must be current to purchase a pet license.
Forms & Applications
- Animal License Application
- Application Form for Large and/or Small Animal Permit
- Appeal Form For Potentially Dangerous, Dangerous, or Vicious Animal
- Multi-Cat Household Kennel Permit Application
- Hobby Kennel or Cattery Permit Application
- Application for Animal Exhibit or Rides
License Fees
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Female Dog
|Male or
Female Cat
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Spayed Dog or Cat
|Owner under 62
|Owner over 62
Late Fees
|31 days or more after expiration
Put the tag on your pet's collar! A rabies tag is not a license. An I.D. tag is not enough. With a license we have your pet's number, and we can locate you if it strays or is injured.


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Singer/actress Selena Gomez has followed her on/off boyfriend Justin Bieber into the beauty industry by launching her own nail polish collection.
The Wizards of Waverly Place star has inked a deal with bosses at O.P.I. - the same company behind Bieber's The One Less Lonely Girl range in 2010 - to create the "sweet and spunky... flirty and fun" line for the firm's Nicole brand.
Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Executive Vice President and Artistic Director of Nicole by O.P.I., says, "Selena is an ideal partner for Nicole by O.P.I. Millions of fans love her for the same reasons we do; she's smart, talented, funny - and has an incredible sense of style. She has that classic 'girl-next-door' appeal, but she's also edgy and fun - just like the Nicole consumer."
Gomez's favorite shades include Sweet Dreams, a violet-teal lacquer; Mi Fantasia, a purple glittery polish; Kissed at Midnight, a gold glitter paint, and Hit the Lights, a bright yellow.

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16/01/2013 - Business competitiveness and export performance are increasingly tied to countries' integration into global production chains and a willingness to open markets to wider imports, according to preliminary international trade data released today by the OECD and the WTO.
The joint OECD – WTO Trade in Value-Added Initiative breaks with conventional measurements of trade, which record gross flows of goods and services each time they cross borders. It seeks instead to analyse the value added by a country in the production of any good or service that is then exported, and offers a fuller picture of commercial relations between nations.
"Countries' capacity to sell to the world depends on their ability and readiness to buy from the rest of the world," OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said during the launch of the new database in Paris with WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht and New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser. Read the full speech.
"Our new work with the WTO allows us to see more clearly than ever before how blocking imports will damage a country's own competitiveness. Trade negotiations have to catch up to these new realities, and countries need to implement policies that help their firms better manage their place in international value chains."
The first release from the OECD-WTO database offers new insights on how global value chains impact trade relationships and business activity. Among the key findings are:
The new indicators of trade in value-added are derived from global input-output tables, developed by the OECD, which describe interactions between industries and consumers for 58 economies, reflecting 95% of global output. The database can be accessed via the OECD's website and through WTO's data portal.
For more information on the methodology behind the TIVA database, indicators and future plans, as well as country notes see: www.oecd.org/trade/valueadded.
For queries on the database, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or the OECD Media Office (Tel:+33-1 4524-9700, firstname.lastname@example.com)
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From Auckland to Aalborg: The Architecture in Virtual Worlds Dialog
(video intro) There were more than 42,000 kilometers separating this group if you connected our locations around the globe. For Amr Attia, in Cairo, Egypt, it was 10:00 in the evening. For Judy Cockeram, it was just 9:00 in the morning – but it was the next day for her, half-way around the world, in Auckland, New Zealand.


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Oregon, you don't look a day over 149
Oregon Blue Blue online version launched to celebrate state's birthday, with new beaches exhibit
(Ossie Bladine/News Editor) Oregonians have the benefit of added love on Feb. 14 as they get to celebrate the state's birthday. Today marks the 154th anniversary of Oregon statehood.
Secretary of State Kate Brown celebrated the anniversary by unveiling the online version of the 2013-2014 Oregon Blue Book. The book has been published annually since 1911, containing government and education contacts, an almanac, maps, history, cultural information and more.
"The publication of the Blue Book is a special occasion for all Oregonians," Brown said. "It's an opportunity to review our state's history and revel in its natural beauty and cultural institutions."
This year's launch comes with a new web exhibit dedicated to how Oregonians have used their ocean beaches over the decades. The exhibit includes some great photos. Anyone who enjoys visiting the Oregon Coast owes gratitude to the likes of Tom McCall and Bob Straub, who fought to protect beaches from overdevelopment and maintain public access. I give a little thanks to Mr. Straub each time I go crabbing at the Nestucca Spit, which would have been paved over as Highway 101 had it not been for his efforts.
The online version of the Blue Book also offers exclusive content like bios of notable Oregonians, movies and books with Oregon connections, and games, trivia, quizzes and polls, all focused on Oregon history and culture. Those could serve me well for a possible all-Oregon theme at an upcoming Pub Trivia Night (shameless promotion).
The printed version of the new Oregon Blue Book will be released in March.


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The Easiest Way to Build a New Garden Bed
Article written by blogger Gina Thomas from My Skinny Garden.
It may not seem like it, but now's the perfect time to start thinking of next year's garden. If you've got an area on your property covered with sod that you're eyeing for a new garden, preparing it now means rich soil with minimal manual labor on your part.
The year that I removed all the unruly junipers and yews planted at the foundation of my house, I used this technique to prepare my new front garden for planting. Because it was such a large area, I knew that getting those shrubs out, removing the sod to expand the bed, then planting the same year would be a backbreaking task that would take me way too long. Instead, I used the principles I learned from the book Lasagna Gardening to build the new flower bed, then let it percolate through the fall. By the next spring the soil was rich for planting. Here's how:
- Identify space to be converted from sod to a planting area.
- Mow grass as short as your mower allows.
- Use water hose to outline the space.
- Remember, curvy borders are more fun and visually appealing.
- Cover grass with layers of wet newspaper or wet cardboard.
- Cover wet newspaper with chopped-up leaves.
- Cover leaves with two to three inches of topsoil.
- Wait for spring.
Fallen leaves are a great source of organic matter that can be used to enrich any soil. I use a leaf blower/vacuum to blow the leaves into a huge pile, then switch to the vacuum setting, which pulls the leaves in, chops them up and shoots them into the attached bag. Chopping the leaves into smaller pieces means they will decompose faster. If you don't own a leaf blower/vacuum, you can run a mower over the leaves to chop them up, then rake them into your garden beds. If you live in an area with no access to dried leaves, you can also skip this step and simply put topsoil right over the newspaper.
Using this method to prepare a garden bed means that the sod and leaves break down like compost and during that process they are simultaneously enriching the soil. By the following spring, the grass, leaves and newspaper will be decomposed and your bed will be ready for planting. If you find pieces of leaves or newspaper that are not fully decomposed, don't worry, just plant right through them.


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Former College of Charleston guard Trevonte Dixon alleges that head coach Doug Wojcik physically assaulted him on two occasions during the 2012-13 basketball season.
Dixon claims in a second school report that he was attacked during a preseason game in Canada, and again in a regular-season game at Elon. Dixon, a Florence native, also alleges that he and teammates were hit by basketballs thrown by Wojcik during practices.
Wojcik, through his attorney Scott Tompsett, denied both allegations.
"Coach Wojcik's practices have always been open to the public, and well attended by College administrators and the public. And they've been videotaped," Tompsett said of the basketball-throwing allegations. "There's no credible corroboration for the young man's claim, and video evidence of Coach Wojcik's practices will refute his allegation."
Tompsett also said there is no video evidence of a physical altercation between Dixon and Wojcik, as alleged by two unnamed sources Tuesday, and that the college has refused his request to issue a statement correcting what he called misinformation.
"The anonymous source's claim is categorically false," he said.
Dixon declined to comment and referred all questions to his attorney, Rose Mary Parham of the Parham Law Firm in Florence.
Wojcik's first altercation with Dixon in Canada was mentioned in the school's initial 50-page report that exposed dozens of allegations of Wojcik lashing out at players with obscenities, personal attacks and physical threats. The original report was compiled with input from 12 players, 10 of them anonymous, and obtained by The Post and Courier earlier this month.
A teammate referred to as Player 2 said in the report that Wojcik grabbed "Trevonte's jersey and had his fist under his chin, while screaming at him that "this Cremins (expletive) won't play here."
The second incident occurred during the Cougars' 56-54 win over Elon on Dec. 1, 2012. Wojcik confronted Dixon on the bench after he played just two minutes, committed a foul and had a turnover.
"Trevonte had dreams of playing at the College of Charleston for four years and graduating with a business degree," Parham said. "He loved the College of Charleston, but could no longer stay at the school because of coach Wojcik's actions. Trevonte's dreams are no longer possible because of coach Wojcik."
Parham said Dixon told investigators Wojcik would hit players with basketballs on their backs, chests and heads during practices.
"Coach Wojcik would also threaten to take away scholarships from players on a routine basis," Parham said.
Dixon transferred to Francis Marion University in Florence following the 2012-13 season.
Parham was not sure if Dixon would pursue a civil suit against Wojcik in the future.
Dixon's allegations are part of a second investigation that the school launched last week at the behest of new College of Charleston president Glenn McConnell.
The McConnell probe follows the school's initial investigation, which was completed on June 26.
College athletic director Joe Hull told players during a meeting on June 30 that he was going to fire Wojcik. However, outgoing president George Benson overruled Hull and suspended Wojcik without pay for the month of August and ordered him to undergo mandatory counseling, multiple sources confirmed.
The new investigation is an attempt to find cause to fire Wojcik, despite the agreement that was reached between Benson and the coach, sources confirmed.
If the College fires Wojcik with cause, they would not have to pay the full $1.2 million remaining on his contract, which extends three more seasons.
The attorney that led the second investigation is Henry W. Frampton IV, of the McNair Law Firm, multiple sources confirmed. Frampton left the investigation late last week. One of the partners at the McNair Law Firm is M. William Youngblood. He is married to Tomi Youngblood, who serves as president of the Cougar Club, the college's athletic booster organization.
The College's initial report was prompted by Tomi Youngblood, who was approached by several players about Wojcik's behavior.
Frampton did not return phone calls or emails Wednesday.
The school's board of trustees met for more than two hours Wednesday morning, but did not make any statements concerning Wojcik or the investigations. The board went into executive session for more than an hour to consult with the school's legal counsel to discuss advice on "litigation, including actual and potential legal claims."
After the meeting was over, McConnell declined to comment on "any personnel matters."
Numerous attempts to reach Wojcik also were unsuccessful.


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Carolyn Maupin can never forget the Prisoners of War.
To honor this country's POWs, Maupin laid a bright green wreath with a large red bow, at the POW flag at the Kentucky Veteran's Cemetery North in Williamstown on Dec. 11 during the Wreaths Across America ceremony.
Maupin is the mother of fallen soldier Matt Maupin of Batavia, Ohio.
"It touches my heart dearly to come here and do this," she said.
Matt Maupin was captured while serving in Iraq in 2004. His status was as a POW MIA up until his remains were found in 2008 and was able to finally come home.
Carolyn Maupin said it was an eerie feeling laying the wreath at the flag.
"Whenever you lay a wreath like that down, your insides just cry," she said. "But yet it's a good thing, because they have been remembered another day."
The ceremony at the Kentucky Veteran's Cemetery North was put on by the Northern Kentucky Blue Star Mothers and chapter president Lorene Friedman.
Wreath's Across America is a national event that pays homage to veterans that have passed or fallen in the line of duty while serving in the armed forces.
The NKBSM is an organization that has children or even grandchildren that are serving or have served in the military. They send care packages, volunteer at the VA hospital, and serve the veterans at home and families left behind, according to Friedman.
For Friedman, the ceremony had a sense of beauty even on a day of remembrance and somber feelings that can be seen at cemeteries.
"I know it can be odd to call it beautiful, but it is beautiful," she said. "It is so humbling. It is awesome to see all of these people come together here and weather this cold weather. It's our way of giving back and that's why we do it."
Friedman also said that the honor of having Maupin lay the wreath at the POW flag will always be open to her.
"It's an honor for us to know Carolyn," she said. "The Blue Star Mothers met her a couple of years ago at Matt's funeral. She is a caring lady and it's an honor for us to join us and lay the wreath here."
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Funding would help support the creation and retention of 902 jobs, as well as tourism, life sciences and advanced manufacturing initiatives
The Western New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board has recommended $2.115 million in funding to seven Western New York enterprises, including $1 million to Ford Motor Company to train its workforce on the next generation of technologies that will allow it to compete as a world-class stamping manufacturer.
"Manufacturing, tourism and life sciences are all represented in the projects recommended today for Power Proceeds funding," said Allocation Board Chairman Anthony J. Colucci III. "Gov. Cuomo has identified these sectors as being crucial for economic growth in Western New York. The board is pleased with the quality and variety of applications we have been receiving, especially because they are resulting in new jobs. We look forward to building on these successes with the approval of funding for future projects.
Ford's proposed $101 million project is a multifaceted program designed to modernize the Buffalo stamping plant. The program will include a tooling launch of the next generation of technologies, including robots for material handling, welding and roll hemming, weld controllers with adaptive welding and other technologies. These new technologies will require extensive training for the workforce, including 100 new jobs, which is what the recommended funding will go toward. The other entities to which the five-member Proceeds Allocation Board recommended awards are Visit Buffalo Niagara, Niagara University. Forest Lawn Heritage Foundation, CNC Technical Solutions Inc.-Reclaim Center, Washington Mills and Lineagen.
In total, the latest projects recommended for funding awards are expected to create and/or retain 902 jobs and result in investments by project applicants exceeding $108 million. The recommendations will be considered by the New York Power Authority board of trustees at its Dec. 17 board meeting.
The latest recommendations for proceeds awards stem from legislation signed into law last year by Cuomo. Known as the Western New York Power Proceeds Allocation Act, the legislation authorizes "net earnings" from the sale of unused hydropower from the NYPA's Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant to be deposited into the Western New York Economic Development Fund to support economic development in Western New York. The fund has accrued approximately $26 million to date. Nearly $13 million has been approved for awards by the NYPA trustees on the basis of earlier recommendations by the Proceeds Allocation Board.
Beyond Ford, the latest projects recommended by the board are discussed below, along with their alignment with regional goals.
Tourism: Visitors contribute more than $2.2 billion to the Western New York regional economy each year. Nearly 12 million people visit Western New York parks each year - including Niagara Falls State Park, the region's leading attraction. Tourism is one of the area's biggest industry sectors, yet it remains an underachievement with average spending at only $50 per day.
Visit Buffalo Niagara
Recommended Award Amount: $250,000
Visit Buffalo Niagara Canadian marketing initiative will facilitate an increase in expenditures by visitors to the Buffalo Niagara region from Ontario, expand tourism-related employment, generate increased labor incomes and make larger contributions to state and local tax collections. A recent market analysis done shows the primary barrier to expanding the nature of visits by Southern Ontarians stems from an image deficit related to lack of knowledge beyond shopping. The potential impact of enhanced tourism spending in the economy can have significant economic impact. If 5 percent of day shoppers are convinced to stay a night and turn a day trip into an overnight stay, the impact would be $9.7 million in new net spending.
Niagara University
Recommended Award Amount: $250,000
Niagara University will establish the Niagara Global Tourism Institute, focused on market research, skills programming and innovative application of digital technologies and "smart growth" principles to regional tourism strategies. Niagara GTI will be a unique, unbiased resource providing stakeholders the information, support for innovation and skills necessary to improve the performance of Western New York as a regional, national and international tourism destination. The Niagara GTI will address the objective of increasing visitor numbers, extending length of stay and generating additional revenues to achieve the United Nations World Tourism Organization's projected growth of 4 percent per annum. In partnership with industry stakeholders, the project will provide research that will inform decision making, develop a trained, professional workforce, and introduce and train the industry in utilization of the most up to-date technologies.
Forest Lawn Heritage Foundation
Recommended Award Amount: $150,000
Forest Lawn recognizes the need for an open, accessible and conveniently located center where professional tour operators and visitors can obtain information on local and regional attractions. The Margaret L. Wendt Archive & Resource Center, opening summer 2014, will serve as a regional visitors center and tour bus terminal for area excursions. Design plans for this center include a fully furnished record repository and management facility providing a means and place to perform genealogy research. Forest Lawn Cemetery's project is based on an increase in public interest in genealogy that is projected to result in a significant number of additional visitors each year. It is well established that one of the region's greatest strengths is the history that has been preserved here. This project will capitalize on that history and create a new reason for tourists to come to the Western New York region.
Health/Life Sciences: The region has invested heavily in both health care and life sciences, especially in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. The investment is creating a critical mass of health science service, research and commercialization.
Recommended Award Amount: $250,000
Lineagen has developed biomarkers that are useful in determining chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and multiple sclerosis progression rate. This $5 million project will provide the sales, technical and bioinformatics staff necessary to offer Lineagen's current genetic test to the region and to complete development of new risk-based tests that will improve clinical management for these patients. Immediately upon funding, the company will hire one regional sales manager in the Buffalo/Western New York region to bring the most comprehensive genetic testing service clinically available to patients in the region. Additional staff will be hired to develop a DNA sequencing-based predictive model to serve the same markets. Finally, new products for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and COPD currently in its development pipeline will be addressed using bioinformatics and computer staffing available in the Buffalo area. The project will create eight to 12 jobs.
Advanced Manufacturing: Advanced manufacturing is crucial to the future of the Western New York economy. No U.S. region in decline has ever reversed its fortunes without growth in the advanced manufacturing sector. Western New York has significant strength on which to build in medical devices, precision instruments, advanced materials and energy storage, and other arenas.
Washington Mills
Recommended Award Amount: up to $140,000
This project proposes to upgrade an existing high temperature arc furnace in Niagara Falls with new, state-of-the-art electrode controls. In addition, improvements will be made to its material handling system in order to effectively produce a higher purity product currently being imported from its Washington Mills plant in Canada. With the new controls and material handling, the company anticipates an energy savings of 2 to 4 percent (approximately 400 Mkwh-500Mkwh annually), and the ability to make a higher quality finished product. The project will retain 35 jobs and create two positions.
Business Development: Business Development is critical in the region's smaller communities, especially when there is a focus on community beautification through the strategic reuse of older, vacant buildings and job creation.
CNC Technical Solutions Inc. - Reclaim Center
Recommended Award Amount: $75,000
CNCTS will be increasing the size and scope of its current industrial reclaim business and will be moving the existing business to a new location in Medina in order to expand the business scope and volume. This $338,850 project will significantly expand its abilities to purchase and reclaim large-scale industrial hardware and to refurbish and remarket this to the automotive, medical, aerospace and the food industry to name a few. The project will involve an infrastructure investment that will stabilize a blighted area of the neighborhood as an ongoing adaptive reuse example of best use practices for a formerly abandoned church and warehouse facility. The final product from the expansion project will be in-demand, high-end controls hardware, which continues to be used all over the country (not just in the local region). The project will retain two jobs and create an additional three jobs.
The Western New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board reviewed these and other applications for fund proceeds in accordance with requirements of the act. For example, eligible projects must be located within a 30-mile radius of NYPA's Niagara Power Plant and projects must support the growth of business and lead to the creation or protection of jobs. The board also considers the extent to which an award would be consistent with the strategies and priorities of the area New York regional economic development councils.
Contracts with awardees will include provisions for periodic audits to ensure the funds are utilized for agreed-upon purposes. Some projects are subject to legal requirements that must be satisfied before an award of fund proceeds can be made.
The board is comprised of the following members, appointed by Cuomo: Chairman Colucci, managing attorney of the law firm of Colucci & Gallaher in Buffalo; Deanna Alterio Brennan, president of the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce; Brenda Williams McDuffie, president of the Buffalo Urban League; Dennis W. Elsenbeck, regional executive, National Grid Western Division; and Henry F. Wojtaszek, an attorney with the law firm of Harris Beach in Buffalo.


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Prosthetic Breakthroughs Will Benefit Boston Bombing Amputees
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(NEW YORK) — The patients who lost limbs as a result of the Boston Marathon bombings might benefit from the lessons learned in treating soldier amputees injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"It's no longer the peg leg mentality," said Matt Albuquerque, president of Next Step Orthotics and Prosthetics, which, coincidently, has an office in Newton, Mass., just a few miles from the Boston Marathon route.
"The misconception is that we are still fitting people with wooden legs, but with the science of prosthetic limbs evolving so quickly in the past 20 years or so, we've gone from wood to robotics," he said.
Albuquerque said that advancements in prosthetic technology often take place during wartime, with the government funding most of the ongoing research.
For example, one prosthetic currently making its way through Food and Drug Administration trials, the Deka arm, was developed by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, thanks to an $18.1 million grant from the Defense Advance Research Project Agency, the defense department's research fund.
Affectionately dubbed "Luke" after the Star Wars character Luke Skywalker, the robotic arm was designed to restore functionality to soldiers with upper extremity amputations. The goal of the project has been a thought-controlled arm-and-hand prosthesis that performs, looks and feels like a natural limb.
Nearly 700 people in the United States — most of them wounded soldiers — have already been fitted with a prosthetic ankle called the iWalk BiOM. It's considered the first truly "bionic" prosthetic because it is packed with a sophisticated array of computer chips, gyroscopes and a motor. This, according to Dr. Austin Fragomen, an orthopedic surgeon who is a limb salvage and limb deformity correction specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, allows it to operate in much the same way as a flesh and blood human ankle.
"It's a huge improvement over older style leg prosthetics, which are essentially hinged springs incapable of sensing subtle shifts in movement," Fragomen said. "It's similar to what's been available for above-the-knee prosthetics, but they've applied a more advanced technology to the ankle."
Fragomen, who also works with the Wounded Warrior Project, said the advantages of the BiOM are most apparent during tasks like climbing up and down hills, which, he noted, is one of the most difficult skills for an amputee.
But the benefits of these new generation bionic limbs go beyond the technological advancements. Fit and comfort have also come a long way.
Prosthetics now fit better, Albuquerque said, largely thanks to new and improved interfaces that insert between the remaining limb and the prosthetic.
One type, a suspension sleeve, suspends the socket of the prosthetic. The other type, a liner, provides a layer of padding or cushioning for the residual limb. Both now come in an array of materials and can be customized to the prosthetic and the user.
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Three Inducted Into Panther Hall of Fame
April 13, 2014
Panther Hall of Famers Ivan Lewis, Brent Doane, Clint Chaffee
Three standouts were inducted into the Tompkins Cortland Community College Panther Hall of Fame Sunday. Former student-athletes Clint Chaffee ('06) and Ivan Lewis ('02) and former coach Brent Doane comprise the Class of 2014, the largest since the inaugural Class of 1999. With a two-time All American, a national scoring champion, and a national champion coach, the Panther Hall of Fame Class of 2014 is distinguished in terms of both quantity and quality.
Chaffee was a member of the College's golf team in 2005 and 2006. He was an NJCAA All American both years, finishing sixth at nationals both years. The Candor High School graduate was The College's first regional golf champion and still holds the College record for best single round score and best season scoring average. He was a SUNY Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete Award winner in 2006 and went on to earn a degree in golf course management from SUNY Delhi. Chaffee is currently an assistant golf professional at Congressional Country Club outside of Washington, D.C., one of the top private clubs in the country.
Lewis played basketball for Tompkins Cortland in 2000-01 and 2001-02. He led the nation in scoring his freshman year, averaging 30.5 points per game, and was third in the nation his sophomore year, averaging 27.8 points per game. He holds nearly all the College's scoring records, and has the distinction of being the only player in program history to score more than 50 points in a single game and more than 700 points in a single season. Lewis was the first Tompkins Cortland player to top 1,000 points in a career and still holds the school record for career scoring. He was a two-time all-region and all-conference selection, and was a preseason NJCAA All American. After graduating from Tompkins Cortland, Lewis went on to star at Felician College (NCAA Division II) in New Jersey, helping the Golden Falcons to a conference title and ECAC Division II championship. He graduated cum laude from Felician and began a coaching career that has advanced to his current post of associate head coach at Felician.
Doane coached the Panthers women's basketball team from 1999-2005 and the softball team from 2002-2012. He directed the basketball teams, the first varsity women's basketball teams in the College's history, to three straight NJCAA playoff appearances. On the softball diamond, he restarted a program that hadn't been active in six years, leading the Panthers to a NJCAA playoff appearance his first season. During his 11 years coaching softball, he led the Panthers to nine NJCAA playoff appearances, four regional championships, and the 2009 NJCAA national championship. His teams placed third in the nation twice and fourth once, and Doane was named the national coach of the year once and the regional coach of the year twice. During his time at Tompkins Cortland, he coached 10 All Americans, 31 all-region players, and 39 all-conference selections. Doane, who still works in the College's admissions office, is also currently an assistant softball coach at Cornell University.
Chaffee and Lewis are the first golfer and men's basketball player, respectively, inducted into the Panther Hall of Fame. Doane is the third coach elected to hall, and the first to have coached a women's sport.
Formed in 1999, the Panther Hall of Fame is designed to honor former athletes, coaches, and contributors for their outstanding performance and support of Tompkins Cortland athletics. New members are elected by a selection committee that includes the director of athletics, the Athletic Advisory Board members, and current Panther Hall of Fame members. Inductions are possible bi-annually, with a maximum of three new members in each class. A plaque with the inductee's picture and description of his or her achievement is displayed at the College.
With the induction of the Class of 2014, there are now 12 members of the Panther Hall of Fame.


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At Queer Youth Advocacy Day, GSA youth activists meet with representatives from their districts to educate them about important issues facing LGBT youth. During these meetings, youth leaders advocate for laws and policies that will make schools safer.
Through events like Queer Youth Advocacy Day, GSA activists played a leadership role in passing ground-breaking, statewide legislation including, The California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000, AB 537, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the law establishing Harvey Milk Day in California, the Mental Health Access for At-Risk Youth law and the FAIR Education Act.
Queer youth advocacy day took place on April 28th.
Queer Youth Advocacy Day took place on April 29. Read all about it here!
Last year's Queer Youth Advocacy Day was in Sacramento on May 1, and focused on school discipline. Read about it here!
Queer Youth Advocacy Day 2011 took place on April 4th, 2011 in Sacramento.
GSA youth advocates were in Sacramento to fight for three groundbreaking laws:
GAYLA 2011 was sponsored by Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network, Equality California Institute,
Transgender Law Center and The Trevor Project!
GSA Advocacy and Youth Leadership Academy and Queer Youth Advocacy Day 2011 were made possible by the following individual donors and organizations: Kaiser Permanente, PFLAG North Bay, California Teacher's Association, Southwest Airlines, Speaker John A. Pérez, Senators Christine Kehoe and Mark Leno, Assemblymembers Tom Ammiano, Toni Atkins, Mike Gatto, Rich Gordon, Bonnie Lowenthal and Nancy Skinner.
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SAN ANTONIO – (For Immediate Release) – Old news isn't good news, at least not for a TV station's news broadcast ratings. That's why Univision 41 TV in San Antonio recently decided to update the look of its news sets with sleek new furnishings and bright, colorful lighting. The station is part of the Univision network, which is the largest Spanish-language television network in the US in terms of viewership, according to Nielsen ratings.
"Univision's old set had an outdated conservative office look with dark wood veneers everywhere. For their new look, they really wanted to push the envelope and be completely different by having a lot of brightness and color," said Frank Burton of Event Ignition (San Antonio), which designed and installed the lighting in Univision 41's news sets, using LED products from American DJ and its sister company Elation Professional.
Three different sets were involved in the project:
* Univision News Set, used for broadcasting the station's regularly scheduled daily newscasts.
* Univision Despierta San Antonio Set, a living room-like environment that features a morning talk show and other interview-based programming.
* Univision La Portada Set, equipped with large LCD wall monitors for displaying footage of national news stories.
The latter two sets were new construction, whereas the Univision News Set, the main set, was a renovation of an existing studio.
The station's management wanted lighting that would be able to produce different colors to change the look of the sets for different types of news stories and broadcasts. "For example, they wanted to be able to use lighting to give the morning news a brighter look than, say, an evening newscast, or convey a sense of urgency for a breaking news story by switching to certain colors like red tones," said Burton.
Management also wanted lighting that could accent the studios' stylish new furnishings, and of course, they required that it be energy efficient – all of which pointed toward using LED fixtures, noted Burton. To achieve these goals, the designer used American DJ's Flat Par TRI7, a low profile par can powered by 7 x 3-watt tri-color RGB LEDs, and Micro Wash RGBW, a mini par can with 7 x 1-watt LEDs (2 Red, 2 Green, 2 Blue & 1 White) that measures just 6.9" x 4" x 2.6".
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In contrast, the Micro Wash RGBWs, with their tighter pattern and tiny size, were the perfect complement to the Flat Pars for use as accent lights. "We put the Micro Washes on the front wall of the set to highlight each of the Univision logos, so that we could change the color of the logos," said Burton. In addition to the two American DJ fixtures, Burton installed Elation Professional's Flex Tape RGB, a thin LED circuit strip, along the back wall of the news set to give the appearance of color-changing bars.
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Both the Despierta San Antonio and La Portada sets were tricky to light because of their small size, and the Flat Par TRI7's wide angle helped meet this challenge, said Burton. "There wasn't a lot of room to be able to shoot long distances, so we had to choose a fixture that was able to cover a large area from a short distance." The Flat Par's "sit-flat" design, which allows it to be placed directly on the floor, was also very helpful for uplighting, he said.
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Calculating Speed Day 2
Lesson 12 of 21
Objective: SWBAT: • Make conversions to determine my speed using different units • Use multiplication and division to calculate rates • Use data to plot points on a line graph. • Compare speeds.
Big Idea: Who's faster? During the second day of this investigation, students use conversions and rates to calculate and compare their speeds. Students also use their data to plot points on a line graph.
Do Now
See my Do Now in my Strategy folder that explains my beginning of class routines.
Often, I create do nows that have problems that connect to the task that students will be working on that day. Today I want students to be able to compare speeds to determine who is faster. A common mistake is for students to think that the person with the lower speed is faster. They may be thinking of a finishing time, rather than a speed. I remind students that the faster person goes further in the same amount of time. Therefore Morgan is faster because she goes further than Jamie in the same amount of time.
Students participate in a Think Pair Share. I call on students to share their ideas. If needed I get two volunteers to model Morgan and Jamie's speeds. Students may notice that Morgan's speed is twice as fast as Jamie's speed. I am interested to see what students think about question (c). It is okay if they are unsure about (c), we can return to this question during the closure.
Who's Faster?
I want students to be able to take a speed and translate it into a graph. I want students to recognize that if Agedel travels at a speed of 9 feet per second, then after two seconds he will go 18 feet. Students sometimes struggle with what happens at 0 seconds. I tell students that 0 seconds is before they start moving, so they have traveled 0 feet.
We complete the first table together and students work on the other tables independently. I call on students to share out their answers.
On the next page, we plot the data onto a graph. I model how we can use the data in our table to plot each point. Students finish the other two graphs on their own. Students are engaging in MP4: Model with Mathematics.
I ask, "What do you notice?" Some students may notice that the points create a straight line. Some students may notice that the lines do not have the same steepness. I want the students to be able to see that the graphs also show that N'Yshma is the fastest, since she travels farther in the same amount of time.
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To Do List
- Students will work in the groups they worked in during the previous lesson. I used the data from the previous lesson's TTG to Create Homogeneous Groups of 3-4 students.
- I use the data from "Calculating Speed Day 1" TTG to prioritize which groups I need to check in with first.
- Each group receives a Group Work Rubric. I use this data to give each student a citizenship grade for the day.
- I have colored pencils, markers, and rulers available for students to use.
- My goal is for students to at least complete the questions in part 1 and create a graph comparing the speeds of their group members.
I read over the to do list with students. I tell students to get out their previous day's packet. Each group needs to check in with me before they move onto the next item on the to do list.
Work Time
Each student has unique data, but they will be able to ask each other questions about how to change their rates and measurements. I walk around to monitor student progress and behavior. Students are engaging in MP1: Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them, MP2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively, MP5: Use appropriate tools strategically, and MP6: Attend to precision.
If students are struggling, I may ask the following questions:
- How long did it take you to sprint 40 feet? How can we figure out how many feet you traveled in 1 second?
- How far did you travel in one second? At this rate, how far would you travel in 2 seconds? In 3 seconds?
- How can you use what you have to create a rate showing how far you would travel in one minute? What units do you have? What units do you need to have in your answer?
- If you know how far you travel in a minute, how far will you travel in one hour?
- How far would you travel in one hour? What units do you have? What units do you need to have?
- What information do you need to make the graph?
- What did we do with the class example before we made the graph?
- When we look at the graph, how can we tell who is faster?
If students are struggling with the actual calculations, I have calculators for students to use. If a student uses a calculator, I still require them to set up the rates and show the calculations he/she is making to get the answer.
If students need extension, I may ask them the following questions:
- What if your walking speed is 1 meter per 1.5 seconds, what is your speed in feet per second?
- How does your speed in mph compare to your estimate?
- How long do you think you could keep up this speed?
If students successfully complete steps 1-3 on the to do list, they can move onto the challenge problems.
Closure and Ticket to Go
I re-read problem 1c from the do now and ask students to share their ideas. I want students to recognize that since we are just converting the measurements from feet per second to miles per hour, that Morgan's speed will be double Jamie's speed.
I tell students that Morgan's speed is 9.54 miles per hour and I ask them to figure out what Jamie's speed in miles per hour is. Students participate in a Think Pair Share. I call on students to share their ideas. Students are engaging in MP8: Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Instead of giving a Ticket to Go I collect student work to look at and I pass out the HW Calculating Speed Day 2.


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Grey's Anatomy Sneak Peek: You Haven't Told Her?Steve Marsi at . Comments
Derek, Meredith and her unstable uterus take center stage in the latest sneak preview clip from tomorrow night's Grey's Anatomy fall finale, with the couple hoping to see their baby's heartbeat for the first time.
In one of the previous Grey's Anatomy clips from the episode, Derek's sister Lizzie chastised Meredith for keeping his family at arm's length. Here, he asks Meredith if he can tell Lizzie they're expecting.
Mer's hesitant, but at least she's consistent. She hasn't even told Cristina yet, much to Derek's surprise. Before they can debate the matter further, it's time for the sonogram and the moment of truth.
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Lockheed Martin-Raytheon Team Will Apply Proven Experience in Bidding for Ground-Based Midcourse Defense Contract
Team Receives MDA's Final Request for Proposal; Additional Companies Join Team
Dec 03, 2010, 08:00 EST
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) announced today that the Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team competing for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Development and Sustainment Contract has received the final request for proposal from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
MDA issued the request for proposal Dec. 2, with a submission due date of Jan. 28. The contract will continue development, manufacturing, test, training, operations support and sustainment support of the GMD element of the Ballistic Missile Defense System, which protects the nation, our allies and friends against limited ballistic missile attack.
"This team is prepared and enthusiastic about our offer to support this critical national asset," said Mathew J. Joyce, GMD vice president and program manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. "Backed by proven performance and domain expertise, our bid will assure a smooth transition. The entire Lockheed Martin-Raytheon team is dedicated to a transparent partnership with the MDA and GMD program office."
Lockheed Martin will be prime contractor and systems integrator. The Lockheed Martin-led team will perform work at all major GMD sites: Huntsville, Ala.; Fort Greely, Alaska; Eareckson Air Station, Alaska; Schriever Air Force Base, Colo.; and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
In addition to the GMD Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, Raytheon will provide systems engineering, development, modeling and simulation, operations and sustainment, manufacturing, testing and training.
"Three additional companies have joined our best-of-industry team," said Joyce. Bluespring Software will provide software tools for modeling, analysis and process improvement. Mission Solutions Engineering will provide systems engineering and software development support. Raytheon Trusted Computer Solutions will provide software support services.
The Lockheed Martin-Raytheon GMD team also includes: Alaska Aerospace Corporation, ARES Corporation, ATK Aerospace Systems, Bechtel National Inc., CohesionForce Inc., Dynetics Inc., Harris Corporation, Imprimis Inc., IroquoiSystems Inc., NANA Development Corporation's ASTS-Akima Logistics Services Joint Venture, Northrop Grumman Corporation as an OEM provider, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Oregon Iron Works Inc., Quadrus Corporation, QuantiTech Inc. and TDX Power Inc.
Strategic partners Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have developed systems that have achieved more than 50 intercepts in testing and combat – more than any other team. The team's credentials include more than 30 years of experience in missile defense development, production, testing and fielding, more than 50 years of experience in strategic weapon system operations and sustainment, and award-winning performance-based logistics expertise.
Raytheon Company, with 2009 sales of $25 billion, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation spanning 88 years, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art electronics, mission systems integration and other capabilities in the areas of sensing; effects; and command, control, communications and intelligence systems, as well as a broad range of mission support services. With headquarters in Waltham, Mass., Raytheon employs 75,000 people worldwide.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security company that employs about 133,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation's 2009 sales from continuing operations were $44.0 billion.
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Electric motorcycles: love them or hate them, our two-wheeled future is here my riding brethren. I can hear the collective groan of petrol-heads as this subject is broached though. Yes, it is hard to get excited about electric motorcycles in their current state, and why should you be excited about them? I may not blindly gush about electrics as much as the Kool-aid drinking EV crowd does, but I'm decisively on the pro-electric side of the debate. Yet, even I have a hard time looking at what is available on the market, and imagining a scenario where my hard-earned blogging dollars would grab an electric motorcycle over its internal combustion counterpart.
Part of the reason is that there is no real appealing reason to go electric at this point in time. Oh sure, you can do your part to save the environment, though the net-effect with our coal-dependent energy infrastructure will still play a tremendous detriment on the reality of one-less petrol-burning motorcycle on the road. That being said, electricity out of a home outlet is super-cheap, out of someone else's outlet it is even cheaper, and the "where our power comes from" debate really should be looked at as separate from the green-vehicle debate. Of course, the break-even analysis on the total cost of owning a 250cc motorcycle compared to even the most robust electric motorcycle is still fairly dubious — and let's be honest, grouping the current offering of electric motorcycles in with a 250cc commuter bike is probably a disservice to the Honda CBR250R and Kawasaki Ninja 250R's of the world.
So with all the Negative Nancy about electrics, why am I still talking about them? Because there is tremendous potential with a fully digital powertrain, that's why. Forget the CD vs. tape cassette analogy, this is a Pandora vs. LP shift in technology — but we just don't have a killer app yet for electric motorcycles. Defined as "the concept that a singular feature is so prolific that its proves the core value of a larger technological system, often driving consumers to make a purchasing decision on the product or system that highlights the feature," it is clear that electric motorcycles have yet to define the advantage they represent to motorcyclists — not because there is no value in the system, but because electric motorcycle manufacturers have failed to provide the killer app to their core technology.
As it stands now, electric motorcycles are basically conventional motorcycles with batteries and motors that replace fuel tanks and engines. It is the same basic offering that we have had since the turn of the century, except with three times the cost, forty times the refuel time, and a quarter of the range. While the big hold-up for electrics, battery technology, is still advancing rapidly, at the end of the day consumers are still be making apples-to-apples comparisons between internal combustion and electric motorcycles because only the most basic elements of this new technology is being offered by electric OEMs (i.e. getting you from Point A to Point B).
There is a tremendous amount at stake for electric motorcycle OEMs beyond just the basics of the market status quo, as the first electric motorcycle OEM that figures out how to deliver a killer app to the electric motorcycle space, is going to be the first electric motorcycle company to find real traction with the born-on-gasoline motorcycle riding masses. Progressing from immediate needs to long-term goals, I have compiled a roadmap of four killer apps that the electric motorcycle space needs to bring to market. Each killer app builds off the next, and the whole exercise concludes on what I believe is the most important idea in motorcycling. Now, who is going to be the first to make these ideas a reality?


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Legend or Legit? the Real Scoop on Some Classic Beauty Treatments
By Tara Rasmus, Refinery29
As much as we love trying all of the new products and potions that come
our way, sometimes we like to go classic with homemade beauty
treatments, whether as a natural fix for our finicky skin or as a break for our wallet. Fancy treatments for hair, skin and nails are undoubtedly luxurious, but as our mamas taught us, sometimes the best beauty fixes can be found in your medicine cabinet - or even in your kitchen.
These beauty fixes are classics, but to investigate whether the
treatments that go on your face are, you know, safe, we reached out to
Dr. Howard Sobel, a dermatologist in New York City, who gave us the
scoop. Click through to get the 411 on these unexpected hair, skin and nail solutions, and find out if it's really worth it to ditch your trusty Kiehl's for an egg white mask.
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Has anyone found a way of seeing a list of requirements for apps on Play or any other app store?
I know it can be obvious sometimes, when tegra 3/nvidia/specific device is mentioned but other times not so much.
I get so frustrated as to why I can't download a certain game or app on occasion. I recently had a problem with local store's loyalty card app. I could install it on my old Xperia x10 mini (Gingerbread) but not on my HTC Sensation XE with ICS (at that time). Then when I upgraded to a JB rom, the app installed fine.
I even emailed the developer to ask, and they had no idea.
I've even tried messing about with the modded vending play store, but that only lets me download apps available in different regions.
I can usually find an .apk to force install manually but that's not always an option with the lesser used/local apps.
Play should definitely introduce a requirements list on each apps page. Perhaps it's not that simple. Any devs here?
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Bosnia, Serbia, and several similar countries used to be ruled by warlord factions in the 1990s until NATO and expeditionary forces brought about factional demise.
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A gay/homosexual warrior or soldier who has sex with his dead enemy's corpse. Often, he will use his enemy's blood as lubricant during the fornication process. He often screams or moans while killing and raping the village similar to the screams of a scream-o rock band
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Days after the House voted to restore funding for Jefferson Correctional Institute, the Senate's Budget Committee has followed suit.
The $10 million in funding for the prison will come from the Department of Correction's general funding, meaning the agency now has to find the savings elsewhere.
Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, who represents part of Jefferson County, championed the effort to amend the Senate's budget to keep the prison open. He said a closure would have the same impact as a hurricane because the prison is the county's largest employer.
Although the budget amendment keeps the prison open, it also requires the Department of Corrections to complete a study that irons out the actual impacts closure would have on the surrounding community. That report would be due July 1.
The House voted last week to amend its budget to keep the prison open and save 175 jobs.
County officials, prison employees and their families have become constant fixtures in the Capitol in recent weeks as they lobbied against the facility's closure. Jefferson County Commissioner Steve Fulford said the Budget Committee's action Wednesday makes him comfortable that the prison will not close this year.
"I think we're over the hump," he said. "We've got some important Senate leadership behind us."


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Welcome back to part 3 of La Pizza series.
So far we've eaten our way through
- An introduction to pizza and the history behind Italy's most famous food
- Various kinds of Italian pizza and popular toppings
Today we will be closing this segment with a virtual tour of the birthplace of pizza, a brief stroll down the dimly lit alleyways of Napoli, for one last slice of authentic pizza and a nosedive in la vita napoletana.
The best pizza in the world | Da Michele
As I moaned with pleasure, biting into my steaming slice of exquisite margherita, I saw what looked like disappointment on the faces of the napoletani sitting around me. They shook their heads and tsk tsk tsk-ed noisily. Our waiter hovered over our small table, apologetic. I didn't know what the heck was going on, moderately devoid of all that was happening, I ate away, estatic at a pizza the likes I had never had before. What got my attention finally was that none of my friends were eating! Was I not in on something? Apparently the rainy night's damp air had done something dreadful to the dough, tainting it, in their expert opinion. I found it divine, and no matter how much they insisted on the opposite, I ended up eating their leftovers and ordering one more. Next time you're ever in Napoli, be sure to make a stop at Michele. Even if it rains. | Da Michele - Via Sersale 13 - Tel. +39 081 5539204
Sophia Loren is singing. A wry smile on her face as she fries her pizzas on a makeshift steaming pan in the street. Customers stop by for a hot and fragrant pizzella fritta more to peer at her voluptuous cleavage rather than for the leavened dough she is frying. Her chubby husband is fanning the flames under the oil and mouth agape, stares transfixed not at Sophia's ample décolletage, but her hand. "Where's the ring?" Sophia's expression betrays she knows. "It must have slipped in someone's pizza," is her prompt reply.
The title of the episode owes its meaning to the old Napoli tradition of buying street food–and these fried delicacies in particular–on credit. The sign behind the characters says, "Eat today, pay in 8 days."
Another similar Napoli custom is that of the "caffè sospeso." When a Napoletano is in the mood, instead of only paying for one espresso at the bar, that person pays for two: their own and one for the next client in need. So later, anyone not able to afford un caffè can simply walk up to the counter and ask the barista "any caffè sospesi?" The fortunate beneficiary of caffè sospeso will never know who to thank. A superb act of faith and compassion. Offering a 'hanging coffee' is like saying "it's on me" to the rest of the humanity. Caffè sospeso is an exclusive Neaplitan custom, and reflects in some ways the city's philosophy of life.
At the end of Part 1 I had promised to share another pizza recipe. Did you think I had forgotten? A promise is a promise. Here it is, your own Sophia-style pizzelle!
A little pre-planning is necessary. First of all, prepare your steadfast basic pizza dough. If you double the quantities and freeze part of it you can thaw it later and make homemade pizza with different toppings listed in part 2. (That is of course bearing in mind that in this case, you should own a professional wood-fired brick oven. I know, I tend to repeat myself, but I can never stress the oven thing enough). For pizzelle fritte, fortunately, all you need is a frying pan.
For the sauce
In a saucepan over medium heat, pour the olive oil and add the garlic. Before it begins coloring, add the tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Cook over medium heat for about 15-20 minutes, until the tomato sauce firms up, stirring frequently.
You will eventually have to heat oil for frying in a large skillet, so take that timing into consideration as well.
Place them on paper towels on a large plate and let the oil drain briefly. The pizzelle should not be crisp, rather soft and chewy, with a full crumb and large air pockets.


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Burger King is trying to revive its ailing empire with a rival's recipe for success.
After years of lackluster sales of its Whoppers and fries, the struggling fast-food giant Monday launched 10 food items in its biggest menu expansion since the chain was started in 1954.
But there are unmistakable similarities between Burger King's new lineup and the offerings its much-bigger rival McDonald's has rolled out in recent years. The Golden Arches already rolled out specialty salads in 2003, snack wraps in 2006, premium coffee drinks in 2009, and fruit smoothies in 2010.
Burger King doesn't deny that its new chicken strips, caramel frappe coffees, Caesar salads and strawberry-banana smoothies sound pretty close to those on McDonald's popular menu. But executives say the company came up with them through its research.
"Consumers wanted more choices," said Steve Wiborg, president of Burger King's North America operations. "Not just healthy choices, but choices they could get at the competition."
The menu additions are part of Burger King's plan to abandon its nearly single-minded courtship of young men, who were once the lifeblood of the industry but were hard hit by the economic downturn. Competitors went after new customers with breakfast items and healthier fare, but Burger King let its menu get stale. As a result, Burger King for the first time was edged out by Wendy's last year as the nation's No. 2 burger chain. McDonald's solidified its hold on No. 1.
To stem the decline, Burger King executives last year decided to modernize the 7,200-restaurant chain's aging stores, redesign worker uniforms with aprons so they stay clean and even serve the iconic Whopper in cardboard cartons instead of paper wrapping for the first time in more than 20 years. Food, however, is at the heart of their plan.
The revamp is nevertheless a gamble. Burger King's new food could be a flop, and of course, the chain is already late to the party.
"Being an innovator is critical in the fast-food industry," said Darren Tristano, an analyst for the food industry researcher Technomic Inc. But in recent years, he said Burger King has been more of a follower.
Eddie Yoon, a principal at consulting firm The Cambridge Group said companies like Burger King that come out with similar products as their rivals can be successful only if they offer lower prices or superior taste. But if it's merely a "me too" strategy, he said, Burger King's venture could fall flat.
"You can have football teams, and just because they're both running the same offense it doesn't mean it will work the same," said Eddie Yoon, a principal at The Cambridge Group, a growth consulting firm.
The ramp up
The fast-food industry has undergone a shift in recent years. Just five years ago, the top three fast-food companies were all burger chains. But concerns over obesity have paved the way for competitors like Subway, now the second-biggest chain, and Starbucks, which climbed up the rankings to the No. 3 spot. Smaller players such as Five Guys, which sells made-to-order burgers, are gaining ground, too.
McDonald's quickly adapted. The world's biggest burger chain reinvented itself as a hip, healthier place to eat by offering wireless Internet and rolling out a string of hit menu items such as fruit smoothies, iced coffees and oatmeal.
Burger King failed to keep up. Its share of sales among burger chains fell from 17 percent a decade ago to 12 percent last year, according to Technomic. McDonald's share rose from 42 percent to 50 percent.
All Tom McDonald had to do was look at Burger King's competitors to see why sales at the chain were falling. A Burger King franchisee since 1989, McDonald said the chain's menu hadn't changed much over the years.
"We were getting behind with the wraps and salads that were coming on the market," said McDonald, who owns 19 franchises. "We had salads, but they weren't as good as the competition. We focused on burgers maybe longer than we should have."
McDonald said he expressed his concerns at the company's failure to keep up with the times. But the Miami-based chain had gone through a series of owners over the years, and McDonald said he got little response from corporate about addressing the problems.
He said the attitude from the top changed after New York-based private equity firm 3G Capital bought Burger King last year. That's when Burger King assembled a group of 15 key executives, franchisees and suppliers to evaluate the chain's menu, item by item.
Burger King quietly put some changes in place from the group's findings over the past year. The French fries are thicker so they'll stay hot longer. Burgers now come with one slice of cheese instead of two, so it melts more evenly. And naturally-smoked bacon is now cooked at each restaurant. Previously, Burger King had used a pre-cooked variety with a smoked flavor sprayed on.
The rollout
Once executives settled on menu items, it was time to go to the masses. Would the new items measure up to those of Burger King's competitors? To find out, the company conducted consumer tests and revised its recipes over months.
Burger King considered making Panini-pressed snack wraps, for example, but tests showed customers wanted something lighter. The wraps it settled on closely resemble the ones offered at McDonald's — a chicken strip sprinkled with cheese, lettuce and dressing wrapped in a flour tortilla. McDonald's even offers the same flavors — honey mustard and ranch.
Even seemingly straightforward items had to be reworked over and over. The new Homestyle Chicken Strips went through 11 variations before the final version was selected. And it took about seven months and six tries before the company found the right mix of creaminess, iciness and tanginess for its strawberry banana and tropical mango smoothies.
"They didn't rush these products out to market," said McDonald, the Burger King franchisee who regularly eats at competitors to stay on top of what they're doing. He said he's confident the new menu items stack up to rivals. "They got feedback from consumers and reformulated them to get it right."
But food isn't Burger King's only problem. Many of its restaurants are showing signs of aging. So the company decided it wanted to give them a more modern look that mixes leather armchairs, high stools and plastic chairs in warmer lighting. High partitions will create more privacy in some seating areas. The makeover costs an average of more than $275,000 per restaurant.
That presents another challenge: getting buy-in from franchisees, who own 90 percent of the chain's U.S. stores. So the company is offering those who sign up for the remodeling incentives, such as a 50 percent discount on the annual $50,000 franchise fee.
So far, more than 1,000 franchise locations are slated to be updated in the next year. Over the next three years, 2,500 will be remodeled.
Customers will see changes even in stores that aren't remodeled. The drab red, black or blue shirts workers used to wear have been replaced by metal gray shirts and aprons that were designed with the help of employees. Wrappers, cups and bags now have vivid photos of food that were shot by the same photographer responsible for the catalogs of the high-end housewares retailer Williams-Sonoma.
To get the word out about the changes, Burger King is rolling out its biggest marketing campaign ever. TV ads will feature celebrities, including soccer player David Beckham, comedian Jay Leno and actress Salma Hayek. In one spot, R&B singer Mary J. Blige croons the ingredients of the snack wraps.


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Not another Flex, AmfPHP, Cairngorm CodeGen! MAKE IT STOP!
Haven't blogged in quite some time and this is a project that's been half done for far too long. Like everyone else we decided to build our own code generator, just something fairly straightforward that would generate all the DAO code, the Cairngorm code, and a nice little interface to test all the main CRUD and DAD functions we have come to know and love. Lately we've been busy souping up the generated UI, not so much in terms of style... beauty does not live here... functionality however does.
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We built this code to use AMFPHP, Cairngorm, PHP and Flex 2.01. We've put in place validators, datepickers, checkboxes and textinputs on our forms and generated full Command/Event/Model/Controller classes. We've implemented binding on the generated view form fields. Our code generator will detect relationships between tables and render comboboxes accordingly, for example, if there's a foreign key on a customer table linked to a country table, the customer view will have a combobox linked to the model.countries collection. But I must stop, I'm getting too technical...
Basically, if the generator runs successfully, you're a few clicks away from being able to manage the data in your database from Flex. The generated code is zipped up for you to download. Inside the zip you will find a complete and ready to import Flexbuilder Project and the php packages ready to copy into your amfphp services folder. Further details can be found by clicking on the link.


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Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
In a small town in Massachusetts, a group of friends, fascinated by the internet lore of the Slender Man, attempt to prove that he doesn't actually exist - until one of them mysteriously goes missing.
A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.
Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey's ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout ...
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This is a card I made using a Magnolia image from the latest Stampclub kit. I have coloured Tilda with distress inks and added stardust stickle glue. The background is distressed with antique linen and edged with vintage photo and gold stickle glue. I have coloured the little hearts with a sakura clear stardust pen. The flowers have been sprayed with ivory lace glimmer mist and distressed with vintage photo. The grungeboard swirls have been crackle painted with milled lavender and ivory lace glimmered. Big hugs and kisses to Tab for the delicious lace and one of the scrummy flowers.
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Wake County school board members said Tuesday that they can only bus students so far to raise schools' achievement, meanwhile voicing support for a new model that would put more resources into struggling schools.
Several board members said it would be inefficient to use long-distance busing to balance schools by student achievement and demographics. Administrators are weighing how much to use busing in a new assignment plan.
While no vote was taken Tuesday, board members said they agree both with providing more programs to schools and using assignment when reasonable.
"I want to be clear that I don't want us to completely shy away from using student assignment as a tool where we can to balance some populations in some schools," school board member Susan Evans said. "While I certainly agree it's not effective, efficient or reasonable to bus kids from one side of the county to the other, if there are smaller adjustments and reasonable distances, I think we certainly want to take it into consideration."
Administrators are working on a plan for the 2015-16 school year that the board will vote on later this year. The plan will be based on the four elements of the assignment policy: proximity, stability, student achievement and keeping schools from being too full or too empty.
The former Republican-backed board majority dropped balancing schools by income from the assignment policy in 2010. The Democratic-backed board majority that took office in 2011 restored diversity as a factor in the assignment policy, but hasn't yet put in place an assignment plan based on the new approach.
"I don't think busing, for several reasons, is the option," school board member Monika Johnson Hostler said. "Efficiency being at the top of the list, but also the fact that these are families, and oftentimes, we have to take into consideration that the families are feeling disenfranchised."


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Welcome to the austerity revolt - the democratic flaw in the European Union's tough love solution to the sovereign debt crisis.
First the Dutch Parliament collapsed, now we have a Socialist President in France. In Greece, the elections at the weekend proved not even the Socialists are safe if they adhere too closely to the script written by the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and her budget-slashing supporters.
Some trillion euros of bailout money has been promised to shore up Europe's weakest nations - and to protect credit markets and banks - on the condition that budgets are cut and books are balanced in all the right places.
What this political rebellion means for Merkel and her grand plan to save Europe isn't yet clear, but what is clear is that these speed wobbles will spook the markets.
Market confidence in the finely balanced "bailout for budget cuts" plan was already shaky. But at least it was something to cling to. It has provided some stability to build on for the past few months.
The trouble is that austerity measures tend to cause more pain in an economy, in the short term at least.
Cutting off government stimulus when little else is firing only adds to unemployment and can cause nations to slip back into recession, as has happened in Britain.
It's hard to escape the reality that books do need balancing. Western democracies can't keep living indefinitely on credit - at least not if they expect to maintain the kind of freedoms and standard of living to which they are accustomed. But how to get there is one of the most hotly debated issues in economics.
Government spending is a good way to jump-start an economy, but if you are as broke as the Greeks it might be a luxury you can't afford.
Perhaps the French can afford it, but the departure of Nicolas Sarkozy is a big blow to Northern European solidarity on the issue.
Markets will be on edge in coming days as Greek leaders try to form a minority government and the left-wing resolve of French President Francois Hollande is tested.
As usual it will make great drama but the risks that this further dampens global demand for commodity prices are very real. That could mean less cash flowing into our economy and a longer, slower recovery.
And that would make life even more difficult for the National Government as they forge on with their austerity-lite policies.
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Last year at this time I was disembarking the Semester at Sea M.V. Explorer in Antalya, Turkey. The next three days were spent soaking up the sun on Turkey's absolutely gorgeous beaches with an iced mint tea in hand. Fast forward one year, and I'm sitting at my Hasbro desk working with a team leader on what could possibly be one of the biggest portfolio pieces of my career thus far.
It's not Turkey, but I'd say its better.
Due to the confidential nature of the piece, I cannot disclose exactly what it is. However, I can tell you that it is extremely important to promoting the company's incredibly positive public image. This is what I love about my majors.
I can promote the company's mission and positive public relations using graphic design. While the writing in a design is the meat of the message, the artwork is the first impression. You know what they say - "first impressions last." It's my job as a graphic designer to make that first impression a good one. From there, the reader/viewer can delve into the writing with the exact mindset and message that we want them to have.
This week also brought the development of another important project. I am now in charge of rethinking and redesigning the main Hasbro building's internal directional signage. The building itself is the size of a standard city square block.
On account of the size, getting around is difficult without prior directional knowledge. I started my inventory of what signs we already have and where there is a lack of directional signage. I will be working on every aspect of this project from planning to working with the printer to make sure every sign comes out exactly the way I want it.
Now, seven weeks in to my internship, I have made many friends with coworkers and become very comfortable with the company culture. Spontaneous inner-cubicle Nerf gun wars helped with that (Hasbro and Nerf are Franchise/Partner Brands).
I look forward to continuing my projects next week and enjoying the holiday weekend, even though I'll be spending it in Rhode Island and not somewhere off in the Mediterranean.
See you next week.
Brittany Semco is a senior design and public relations major at Waynesburg University.


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Man charged in NC child cuffing case appointed attorney
Man charged in NC child cuffing case appointed attorney
A judge is appointing an attorney to represent a North Carolina man charged after an 11-year-old boy was found handcuffed to a porch with a dead chicken tied to his neck.
Dorian Harper told a judge Monday that he didn't have money for an attorney because he was fired as an emergency room nurse after his arrest.
Harper's girlfriend, Wanda Sue Larson, also was supposed to appear in court, but her hearing was postponed until Tuesday. She is a former child-protection investigations supervisor with the county Department of Social Services and was also indicted for failing to report the abuse
The couple was arrested in November after a Union County sheriff's deputy found the boy on the porch. They had guardianship of the boy.


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Dr. Isenman has served on the Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center Board since 1986 and joined the Health First Board of Trustees in February of 2013. A retired MIMA physician, Dr. Isenman served as medical director of MIMA from January 1992 through May 2000. He served as chief of medical staff at Holmes Regional Medical Center from 1984-1985 and vice chief of medical staff from 1982-1983. Dr. Isenman is board certified in Geriatric Medicine and with the American Board of Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine.Dr. Isenman was born and raised in New York and earned his medical degree from Downstate Medical School in Brooklyn, NY. He spent much of his early medical career at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY before coming to Florida.


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Kind of sounds like a "Swingers" forum :wink: "....we like slow walks on the beach..." LOL!
we're near wadsworth and hwy. 285. we're currently waiting for some pics 2 come back from the audi rally we went 2 on sunday 2 the springs and up the peak. it rocked and i can't wait 2 do it next year but we are tryin 2 plan a rally up mount evans somtime in late july early august. but as soon as we get the pics back we'll post em on here.
....um.....and your still "Friends" 8O :wink:
and TMI on the jeep swinging church goers stuff guys, we trying to scare new people away?


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Sabres notebook: Habs clinch playoff berth
The Montreal Canadiens were dead last in the Eastern Conference last season. You want one-year turnarounds? The Habs are exhibit No. 1.
They clinched a playoff spot, something that's been a forgone conclusion for weeks, with Thursday's 5-1 cakewalk past the Buffalo Sabres in First Niagara Center.
But they have much more on their agenda. Montreal took over the Northeast Division lead by one point with eight games left; the Habs have just one division title in the last 22 years, winning the Northeast in 2008. And their last Stanley Cup was won in 1993 and the legacy has hasn't been added to since.
They're in position to be a contender this time.
"You have to give the coaching staff and whole organization credit," said defenseman P.K. Subban. "And for [first-year General Manager] Marc Bergevin to come in and put a group together that clinched a playoff spot with [eight] games left is a great accomplishment. It's been an unbelievable year from top to bottom but we're not finished yet."
The Habs were relentless in this one, compiling a 42-15 advantage in shots on goal and giving the Sabres virtually nothing after the first five minutes. They joined the Chicago Blackhawks and Pittsburgh Penguins as the only teams to officially clinch playoff berths in this lockout-shortened season.
"Even though they had a couple chances at the beginning we came out with the jump," said goaltender Peter Budaj. "Right off the get-go, we showed we were ready to play. That made me more calm and relaxed. I was able to make some saves and then after that, they didn't have much."
Subban played a team-high 25:06 and had a game-high six shots on goal on his 14 attempts.
"We played a good game right from the start," Subban said. "It was one of our best games and a character game when you have the opportunity to clinch a playoff spot. We knew what was at stake.
"We got pucks deep, we were physical and we were on them all game in all three zones. They didn't have their best game. We did our part."
Fifteen Montreal players had shots on goal, 10 had points and there were five scorers. One of them was 19-year-old rookie Alex Galchenyuk, the No. 3 overall pick in last June's draft. Galchenyuk, like Buffalo counterpart Mikhail Grigorenko, was a junior eligible player but has stayed in the NHL all year.
Still, he has struggled at times and has just six goals. But three have come in the last four games after an 18-game drought. Galchenyuk has a five-game point streak and a balanced Montreal attack could get even more dangerous if he stays hot.
"I always try to go play with confidence but when things aren't going right it's tough to keep that confidence up," Galchenyuk said. "As a young player, it can be harder. I'm trying to work hard and do simple plays."
The loss dropped the Sabres to 3-2 against the Habs and 8-7-2 against the Northeast Division. The season-killing stat, however, is Buffalo's 2-9-2 record against the Southeast Division that includes Tuesday's 4-1 loss at Winnipeg. Want some comparisons? The Habs are 11-1 against the Southeast and Boston is 9-1-1.
And there's this: The Sabres have six losses – five in regulation – to Tampa Bay, Carolina and Florida. Those are the three teams that opened play Thursday in spots 13, 14 and 15 in the East.
"I think everyone rises to the occasion for good teams," said defenseman Mike Weber. "They're good teams because they're always at a high level. We're focused in getting at that the rest of the season and in the future.
"Look at Pittsburgh, look at Boston and all the good teams in our division. Everyone wants to beat them and brings their best game for the most part. But those teams still win a lot."
The Habs' 2-0 lead after the first period Thursday kept together their remarkable streak of success after 20 minutes. Montreal has trailed just three times in 40 games after the first and entered Thursday's game 14-3-1 when holding a lead.
Montreal has outscored its opponents, 37-16, in the first period this season.
Tyler Myers again led the Sabres in ice time at 25:37. … Thomas Vanek was minus-2 in the first period, dropping to minus-6 in his first four periods after sitting out six games with an upper-body injury. … Buffalo enforcer John Scott was a healthy scratch after playing more than nine minutes in each of the last three games. Luke Adam returned to the lineup. … Interim coach Ron Rolston confirmed backup goalie Jhonas Enroth will play a game this weekend but hasn't decided which one. The Sabres host Philadelphia here Saturday at 3 p.m. and Tampa on Sunday at 5 p.m.
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David Sirota writes a weekly column that appears in dozens of newspapers. He has his own radio show. And he's a frequent guest on cable TV gabfests. These facts should qualify Sirota as a pundit. But it feels wrong – and slightly dirty – to use that word....more


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Okay, internet. Let's call it quits for 2010. This will not be topped.*
It goes with out saying that this is a commercial for Norwegian Television. Obvi. And to recap, we've got, among others, Roger Moore, Corbin Bernsen, Huey Lewis, Jason Alexander, Ricki Lake, Malcolm Jamal Warner, David Faustino, Leslie Nielsen (if this is his last role, then he definitely went out on top), Pamela Anderson, Mickey Rourke, Kathleen Turner, Lou Ferrigno, Tanya Harding, David Faustino, George Wendt--
Hold on. I just want to go back to Tanya Harding. Excuse me, but um, whaaaaaaaaaaat? Was Amy Fisher too busy? Or were they really trying to get Nancy Kerrigan and decided she might almost make sense. Norway, what is going on?
Also, it was really great that C. Thomas Howell could reprise his role from Soul Man to be in this video. Oh wait, no, that was TUBBS FROM MIAMI VICE. Though to be fair, it's actually shocking that C. Thomas Howell isn't in this video.
But of course Right Said Fred is. As is the kid who played young Forrest Gump. And Grandmaster B! And they're all on a greenscreen beach!
And Milli Vanilli! Obviously, I don't need to point out the irony of Milli Vanilli lip-syncing, but c'mon! Amazing!
I cannot get over how wonderful this is. It's like the internet had a meeting and Nick at Nite was playing the background and they all looked at each other and were like "Get Alfonso Ribeiero on the phone. Stat!"
And for that, we are grateful. Continue to be the internet, the internet.
*Obviously, given the internet's ability to be the internet, there's a high likelihood it will in fact be topped. Hell, this is giving it a serious run for its money.